April 1997 will always be remembered for the devastating flood that followed one of the worst winters in recorded history. The winter of 1996-97 did not end until well into April that year.
April 4-7, 1997, brought perhaps the worst storm of that winter to the area with a devastating blizzard and heavy rain event as many were frantically sandbagging to stem the rapidly rising water. The storm was followed by a severe cold snap that brought January-type temperatures to the area.
From April 6-9, the low temperature dropped into the singles digits, although no records were broken. The story was different with daytime highs. The high temperature on April reached a meager 13 degrees. That high was the coldest maximum temperature recorded during the month of April in Fargo-Moorhead since records began back in 1881. To this day, the daily highs from April 7-10, 1997, are still the lowest maximum temperatures on record for those dates.
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